The Canary

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This is a growing archive of articles and sermons gathered to help Christians in the West think and love well.

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*Featured Article*

Tripp Fuller: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism

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General Interest

Skye Jethani: On Christian Nationalism  (“With Malice Toward None”)

Sam Kriss: Numb at Burning Man

Ignazio Silone: The Choice of Comarades

James Merriot: The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society

Katherine Dee: Internet Overexposure Syndrome

Freya India: The Mass Trauma of Porn

Freya India: You Don’t Need to Document Everything

Freya India: Nobody has a Personality Anymore

Tara Isabelle Burton: Eat Me, Drink Me, Like Me

Alan Macleod: A Mass Media of Hate

Alan Jacobs: From Tech Critiques to Ways of Living

Sam Kriss: Prediction Versus Prophecy

Marc Barnes: Children Will Destroy Us

Sahanika Ratnayake: The Problem of Mindfulness

Mike Mariani: American Exorcism

David Bentley Hart: The Pornography Culture

Aaron Kerhiarty: Card-Carrying Pre-Cadavers

Jia Tolentino: The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman

Fr. Stephen Freeman: Into the Heart of the Capitol

Adrienne LaFrance: The Prophecies of Q

Rachel Monroe: How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety

Edward Hadas & Frank Ledwidge: Modern Warfare’s Terrible Toll

Lindsay Ballant: Selling the American Space Dream

Justin E.H. Smith: Ecstatic Rationalism

Tara Isabelle Burton: The Rise of Progressive Occultism

Adam A.J. DeVille: Jordan Peterson’s Best-Seller is Banal, Superficial, and Insidious

Lisa Miller: Measles for the One Percent

Justin E.H. Smith: What are the Humanities? (Why Are They Worth Saving?)

Miya Tokumitsu: In Defense of the Lecture

Caitlin Flanagan: Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene

William Deresiewicz: Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League

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Discipleship in the West

Tripp Fuller: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism

Skye Jethani: On Christian Nationalism  (“With Malice Toward None”)

Matt Whitely: Christian Third Wayism

Pete Wehner: Why Evangelicals Turned their Back on Pepfar

Ben Christensen: The Demon in the Machine

Paul Kingsnorth: The Cross and the Machine

Russell Moore: Resignation Letter to the SBC’s ERLC

Russell Moore: Losing Our Religion

Michael Luo: The Wasting of the Evangelical Mind

Lauren Kerby: White Christian Nationalists Want More Than Just Power

Emma Green: A Christian Insurrection

Esau McCaulley: Truth over Power

Tish Harrison Warren: We Worship with the Magi, not MAGA

David French: The Idolatry of Christian Trumpism

Michael Horton: The Cult of Christian Trumpism

Andrew Sullivan: Christianism and Our Democracy

John Piper: Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin

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St. Matthew’s Newport

Fr. Hayden Butler: Acedia

Fr. Hayden Butler: Acedia and the Cult of Productivity

Fr. Hayden Butler: Acedia and the Tyranny of Optimization

Fr. Hayden Butler: Overcoming Acedia

Fr. Hayden Butler: ‘Doing’ Evangelism – The Way Forward

Fr. Hayden Butler: Evangelism – The Way Back

Fr. Hayden Butler: Evangelism and Evangelicalism

Fr. Hayden Butler: Evangelism – Good News!

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